Improvement in suspenders



J. B. WILLIAMS5 Suspenders.

No. 221,888. Patented Nov. 18, 1879.

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JAMES B. WILLIAMS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN SUSPENDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 221,888, dated November 18, 1879; application tiled September 20, 1879.

. buckle, or other similar device with the rear end of the shoulder-strap A, and B B, in like manner with the rear end of the shoulder-strap A. This arrangement of the button-straps in relation to the shoulder-straps, making suspenders consisting of two shoulder-straps and two buttonstraps, as above described, constitutes the distinguishing characteristic of my invention.

It will be seen that the button-straps B B and BB may bemade in one or two pieces, and

it maybe fastened at D and D, or allowed to render at those points but I prefer in all cases to allow the button-straps to render-at D and D.

I am aware that one inverted V-sha-ped button-strap has been used to connect the rear ends of both shoulder-straps with the two rear buttons of the pantaloons. This I do not claim, my invention consisting of two shoul tier-straps adjustable as to length between the front and back button-straps, each shoulderstrap being provided with a single independent front button-strap, and with a pair of back button-straps adjustably connected with the shoulder-straps in such a manner that in accom inodatin g a lateral movement of the ends of the straps one strap is shortened and the other lengthened, or vice versa, according to the direction of the strain, the ends (J 0 being attached to the two rear buttons of the pantalocus, and the ends 0 G. being attached to the two side buttons of the pantaloons.

I am aware that the Patent No. 147,582, granted to J. H. Wattles, February 17, 1874, describes a peculiar construction of suspenders consistingof two shoulder-straps connected at the back and two extensible front buttonstraps adjust-ably attached to the shoulderstraps, and one back button-strap; but as the shoulder-straps aie adjustable as to length between the front and back straps, and as there is no provision for connecting the back ends of each of the shoulder-straps with the article supported to secure the flexibility and adjustability herein set forth as the peculiar quality of this construction, Iconsider that said Letters Patent do not embody my invention.

What I claim as my invention is The suspenders described, consisting, essentially, of the shoulder-straps A A, each adapted to be ad justable and extensible as to length on both ends at the points ofconnection with the front and back button-straps, the back connection-strap, E, the single independent nonextensible front button-straps, F F, and the adj ustable and extensible V-shaped pairs of back button-straps, B B and B B, all constructed and arranged to operate substantially as set forth.

JAMES B. WILLIAMS.

Witnesses:

JOHN F. BROWN, CHESTER WILLIAMS. 

